Category: Film

Why I Love the music of The Greatest Showman

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This week I saw The Greatest Showman.

What pulled me in from the beginning was the music.

Knowing now that the composers were Benj Pasek and Justin Paul all made sense.

They are the industry's go to composers from their start on NBC's Smash to Oscar winning La La Land and Best Musical winning Dear Evan Hansen.

And the music supervisor was Alex Lacamore who is Tony award winner Lin Manuel Miranda right hand man.

 

If you love music and great performances then be prepare to be transformed to a place where the impossible is realized in a hyper realistic setting. This truly is the greatest show.

Document Don’t Create – The Defiant Ones

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The Defiant Ones is a parallel look at Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre’s journey in the music business and how they got to where they are today.

 

There’s so many things I love about this episodic odyssey.

As a music lover there are interviews with those who created the soundtrack to so many people’s lives.

Jimmy Iovine worked at a studio and progressed to engineer then producer of such acts as Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and U2.

In my generation a lot has been made of Dr. Dre who has been proclaimed by many as the greatest hip hop producer of all time but Iovine’s work with Lennon and Stevie Nicks is very special.

Why I Love Kingsman: The Secret Service

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After the release of the sequel I went back to see the original.
This was a movie adaptation from the comic series by Mark Miller & Dave Gibbons.

From references to spy leads like Jason Bourne and James Bond this film truly felt like a fresh movie.

In the era of remaking nostalgic classics like Transformers and Power Rangers this My Fair Lady story wasn't completely faithful to the source material but changed to improve the director's feelings about discovering a new take on a classic story.

DCOM – Tru Confessions

In the late 1990s, early 2000s every month Disney would release a Disney Channel Original Movie.

These movies have become fondly remembered by kids now adults who are apart of a generation now looking back to the past.

The 90’s babies are now becoming nostalgic as most have graduated high school & gone in to the “real world”.

All Eyez On Me – The Film Beyond The Hype

I looked at All Eyez On Me as an opportunity to build a world. 

In the era of Marvel Cinematic Universe and DCEU with superheroes intertwining through various films I thought the Tupac movie as a way to bridge the gap.

Straight Outta Compton laid the groundwork on how to tell an engaging hip hop story that matched up with Ray and Walk The Line, surpassing both as the highest grossing musical biopic of all time.